THE MILLIONAIRE BABY i TWO LITTLE SHOES The morning of August eighteenth, 190-, wu3 a memorable one to me. For two mouths I had had a run of bad luck. During that time I had failed to score in at least three affairs of unusual importance, and the result Avas a decided loss in repute as well as great financial embarrassment. As I had a mother and two sisters to support and knew but one way to do it, I was in a state of profound discouragement This was before I took up the morning papers. After I had opened and read them, not a man in Xcw York could boast of higher hopes or greater confidence in his power to rinc by one bold stroke from threatened bankruptcy to immediate independence. The paragraph which, had occasioned this uinazing change must liavo passed under the eyes of many of you. It created a wide-spreadTable of Contents CONTENTS; CHAPTER; I Two Little Shoes; II "A Fearsome Man"; III A Charming Woman; IV Chalk-Mark*; V The Old House in Yonkers; VI Doctor Pool; VIL "Find the Child!"; VIII "Philo! Philo! Philo!"; IX The Bungalow; X Temptation; XI The Secret of the Old Pavilion; XII Behind the Wall; XIII "We Shall Have to Begin Again "; XIV Espionage XV A Phantasm; XVI "An All-Conquering Beaut)'1'; XVII In the Green Boudoir; XVIII "You Look As If-As If-"; XIX Frenzy; XX " What Do You Know? "; XXI Providence; XXII On the Second Terrace; XXIII A Coral Bead; XXIV "Shall I Give Him My Word, Harry; XXV The Work of an Instant; XXVI